--- title: "'Go 1.13 is shaping up to be pretty fun'" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 260 published_at: "2019-05-02" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/260" --- The latest Golang development news #260 — May 2, 2019 [Read on the Web](https://golangweekly.com/issues/260) Golang Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/fdo9uhq8phrun5fttsvg.jpg)](https://hackernoon.com/go-is-on-a-trajectory-to-become-the-next-enterprise-programming-language-3b75d70544e) 📈 [Go is on a Trajectory to Become the Next Enterprise Programming Language](https://hackernoon.com/go-is-on-a-trajectory-to-become-the-next-enterprise-programming-language-3b75d70544e) — It’s quite the headline, but the author makes worthwhile points about many of Go’s characteristics that give it an advantage in building large-scale software projects. Kevin Goslar ['Go 1.13 is Shaping Up To Be Pretty Fun'](https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/1121551757971087360) — Brad of the core Go team shares a tweet with a list of things coming to the next version of Go 1.13, including default support for modules, allocating [defer records on the stack](https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/171758/) (read: more performance), and a variety of optimizations including [escape analysis improvements](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/23109). Brad Fitzpatrick on Twitter [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/3e5db9f5.png)](https://semaphoreci.com/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=golangweekly-semaphore-2-0-20190502) [Powerful CI/CD Pipelines. Pay Only For What You Use](https://semaphoreci.com/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=golangweekly-semaphore-2-0-20190502) — Built for developer productivity, Semaphore 2.0 lets you model and CI/CD workflow with fully customizable pipelines. 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Ayke van Laëthem ▶[Performance Tuning Go Applications on Google Cloud Platform](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0o-xeEoug0) — A tour of a variety of tools and techniques for diagnosing latency issues in a Go app running on GCP. Valentin Deleplace [📕20 Patterns to Watch for in Engineering Teams](https://resources.gitprime.com/books/20-patterns/?utm_source=nl%28go%29&utm_medium=email-nl&utm_campaign=nl%28go%29) GitPrime sponsor [5 Tips To Speed Up Go Development with IntelliJ or Goland](https://t.co/lIXKMn9qFa) — Some tips if you’re a JetBrains IDE user. If not, move on. 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